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Poetic IntentionIn this first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant argues for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a poem, in its intention, must never deny the "way of the world." Poetic Intention creates a new landscape for understanding the...
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The Colour of Black and WhiteThe Colour of Black and White is Liz Lochhead's first collection of poems for more than a dozen years, and, for her, the most important since the award-winning Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems in 1984. The coming of a simple love lyric feels like...
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The Hafez Poems of Gertrude BellIncludes Bell's translation of Hafez, along with the original Persian (Farsi). Also included are Bell's extensive introduction on the life and poetry of Hafez and a preface by E. Denison Ross. As E.G. Browne has commented: "Bells translations are true poetry of a very...
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Paris Paint Box: New and Selected PoemsParis Paint Box, New and Selected Poems, brings together over forty-five years of poetry by Helena Minton. The book opens with a sequence about the life and work of the French Impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot. Additional new poems focus on everyday moments, and meditations...
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P'u Ming's Oxherding Pictures and Verses, 2nd EditionPoetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Chinese. Reprinting of the 2nd revised edition, including a new preface and beautiful illustrations. In these translations of the mysterious P'u Ming's work, Red Pine demonstrates the way in which the ox became a significant metaphor in...
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Cathay RevisitedPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. This is a book of translation about translating. Red Pine has revisited the poems first translated by Ezra Pound in his Cathay, renewed them through his own experience of language and culture, and attached an important essay about the art of...
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Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated EditionThis biblically annotated edition of 'Paradise Lost' demonstrates that Milton was mining a wide variety of translations. Stallard contends that a full understanding of the Bible as the poem's primary inter-text is essential to appreciating the poem in its Puritan context.Author: John MiltonPublisher: Mercer...
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A New Path to the WaterfallRaymond Carver, author of Where I'm Calling From, is widely considered one of the great short story writers of our time. A New Path to the Waterfall was Carver's last book, and shows a writer telling the truth as best as he knows how...
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Poems from the DiwanYehuda Halevi, who wrote both secular and devotional poems, is considered one of the finest poets in post-biblical Hebrew literature. Suffused with warmth, moving easily between the mundane and the otherworldly, and, above all, delicately elegiac, the poet's voice cuts across all the literary...
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Life in a Country Album: PoemsFrom migrations to pop culture, loss to la dérive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape-borders and citizenship, hybrid identities and home, freedom and pleasure. It's a vast and moving look at the world, at what home means,...
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Only the Road / Solo El Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban PoetryFeaturing the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the...
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Begin with a Failed Body: PoemsThis collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight...
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The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire: Bilingual EditionThe definitive edition of the complete work of a master Caribbean poetThe Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of Césaire's poetic oeuvre made available in...
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Run, Shepherds, Run: Poems for Advent and ChristmasThe Advent season is filled with rich themes that have fascinated poets. In Run, Shepherds, Run, Bill Countryman presents a poem a day for devotional reading during Advent and the twelve days of Christmas. Readers will find classic poets they know and love, including...
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Milk & FilthNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Adding to the Latina tradition, Carmen Giménez Smith, politically aware and feminist-oriented, focuses on general cultural references rather than a sentimental personal narrative. She speaks of sexual politics and family in a fierce, determined tone voracious in its...
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EmpathyEmpathy, first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry, her lines lengthening across the page like so many horizons, tuned intimately to the natural world and its human relations, at once philosophical, lush, and rhythmic. As...
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Quite Early One Morning: StoriesIn England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and recordings. Many of the 25 short stories, autobiographical sketches and essays in Quite Early One Morning, a volume planned by Thomas shortly before his death,...
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Fields of Praise: New and Selected PoemsIn The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common journey toward a "monstrous love / that wants to make the...
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Notes from the Divided Country: PoemsIn her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects--colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation and a divided self: what it means to enter language, the body, the...
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Queen of the Mist: The Forgotten Heroine of NiagaraThis novel-in-verse tells the fascinating story of Annie Taylor, who, in 1901, became the first person to plunge over the brink of Niagara Falls in a barrel. But as Joan Murray reveals, America didn't know what to do with a mature and self-possessed heroine:...
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